[geeks] binary grepping in an xterm

Caleb Shay caleb at webninja.com
Tue Jul 29 15:26:23 CDT 2003


Ooh, good trick.  There are certain commands that I use every day that 
I've never bothered to read the man page for, so I never find out the 
other cool things they can do.

Caleb

Mike Meredith wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 15:52:12 -0400
> Kevin <kevin at mpcf.com> wrote:
> 
>>Anyone know how to stop a terminal window from turning into "binary
>>garbage" when you issue a command like the following:
>>
>>#grep --binary-files=text DOS ub.dll
> 
> 
> | cat -v
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